From the Archives
DMZ ambush survivors seen lucky to be alive
Observers at the scene of Sunday night's bold ambush by Communist North Koreans who machine-gunned and killed four United Nations Command soldiers reached one conclusion: "I don't see how anybody survived this."
Yokota petty officer adding a little light humor to PBS documentary
It’s just a few minutes before 10 a.m. at Yokota Air Base, Japan, and while many U.S. servicemembers are sipping their first cup of coffee, Eagle 810 radio disc jockey Petty Officer 3rd Class Christian Garzone has spent the last four hours rousing his audience with his humorous, fast-talking on-air antics.
Young baker’s ‘cake cups’ brighten coronavirus quarantine for thousands in South Korea
Over her summer break from school, Kiri Peterson, 16, began making cake parfaits for troops and their families serving out their mandatory two-week coronavirus quarantine at Camp Humphreys.
US military moves to make pandemic travel easier for troops based in Japan
U.S. Forces Japan announced new options to make travel easier for vaccinated service members, Defense Department employees and their families.
This time, the focus is on Frank, not Sly
The commercials on AFN’s Eagle 810 radio station are sometimes baffling, but I’m even more puzzled by the recurring "Frank Stallone Friday." Who’s Frank Stallone? Why Friday? What’s up with that?
About 50,000 service members in Japan ordered to maintain logs of personal interactions amid pandemic
Failure to maintain a log of daily personal contacts and interactions may result in charges under Article 92 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice — failure to obey an order or regulation.
AFN Korea host lied about wife’s housing in U.S.
A former AFN radio DJ was sentenced here Saturday to two years in prison and a bad conduct discharge for bilking the Air Force out of more than $31,000 in housing allowance payments.